A wise man once said "When trouble is solved before it forms, who calls that clever? When there is victory without battle, who talks about bravery. How to Win Without Fighting is a posting of Taoist based strategic management strategies mixed with Urban street sense designed to assist individuals and organizations in winning while avoiding the stress of conflict.

About Me

I am the President and CEO of Urbanology Systems a Multicultural Marketing/Strategic Management Company. I serve on the executive board of the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce and a co-founder of Harlem Week the largest cultural/economic development festival in America see www.harlemdiscover.com.I now serve as president of the Harlem Tourism Board www.goharlem.org. I have studied the martial arts for most of my life, I have a six degree black belt in GoJu Karate,www.harlemgojuassociation.org and was the first African American master trained in the mountains of Korea in the ancient Taoist healing/stress management ki Energy training form of Jung Shim or Kido (The Way of Ki) www.kienergycenter.com. I was inducted into the World Professional Martial Arts Hall of Fame at New York's Madison Square Garden in 2008. I served over 25 years as the Urban Policy Adviser for five Presidents at the City College of New York. I have a weekly radio program Urbanology the Art of W.A.R.
every Tuesday at 4pm at www.whcr.org I write a weekly Urbanology column for the Harlemcommunitynews.com. My passion is helping people improve the quality of their lives

Sunday, November 4, 2012

The Spiritual Path

The Spiritual Path

The spiritual
path is not an easy road to follow there are many distractions along the way
and all to many are not even aware that there is a path at all. Faith and
compassion are the two concepts necessary to even begin the journey.When I speak of faith I am not necessarily
talking about organized religion. I say this not to be disrespectful I say this
because most of the prophets, sages and philosophers who served as the
foundation for the main stream organized religious orders that we know of today
were either killed, exiled or imprisoned because they were spiritual.

The politics
of religion has often run astray from the spiritual path in order to control
the minds of the masses. When I speak of faith it is not the belief that one god
is better than another;I speak of a
faith that allows one to understand that we are all connected to a power that
is in all of us and everything that exist in our world. This is where
compassion comes in. The first step is to learn to love one’s self. If you can
truly learn to love yourself you will learn to have compassion and love for
others.

The ancient
Egyptians provided mankind with much of the wisdom necessary to follow the
spiritual path to enlightenment. It was stolen and made secret. Fear and doubt
have been used as tools by a few to guard that secret from the masses for
centuries. “Know Thy Self” was a profound ancient Egyptian message of wisdom has
taking on a clearer meaning now that the secret his become an international
bestselling book. The secret is out, to
know and love oneself is a step towards the spiritual path of understanding
that all that you need, you have.

Nothing in
the material world can provide everlasting happiness, all things are
beneficial, and there are no coincidences can be very difficult concepts to grasp
but necessary to begin your journey on the spiritual path. This cannot be done
without replacing fear and doubt with faith and compassion. You might be asking
what all this has to do with the price of tea in China. Times are changing, the
negative response that comes from materially motivated behavior without
compassion will take a greater told on the health and wealth of many. Truly
understanding the concepts of faith and compassion will soon become necessary
tools for navigating the frequency of a new time. The love of self and others
will soon become a survival tool for being on the positive side of the next
stage of human evolution. Wayne B. Chandler’s book Ancient Future: The Teachings and
Prophetic Wisdom of the Seven Hermetic Laws of Ancient Egypt would be a
useful book to read if this dialog is of interest to you. I have four articles
posted on the Seven Hermetic Laws on this blog.